PC Women’s Basketball Holds Annual Banquet
CLINTON, S.C. – Presbyterian’s women’s basketball team held its annual end of the year banquet at the Chapman Conferenece Center in Jacobs Hall on the PC campus on Wednesday evening.
The banquet honored the team for its successes this past season.
Clinton Mayor Randy Randall was the guest speaker at the event. Randall was the first coach that the PC basketball program ever had, helming the program from 1978-84 and compiling a 74-73 (.503) record.
Randall spoke of the first years of the program in his speech and detailed why it is so important to the current PC women’s basketball program to be a part of the Lady Blue Hose basketball family.
PC women’s basketball coach Jessica Vanco then honored the season’s award winners that were voted on by the PC women’s basketball coaches.
Sharie Hopkins (Chesepeake, Va.) won the night’s first award with the screen award, which is given to the individual who showed the best ability to screen their opponent over the course of the season.
Bridget Takach (Chapin, S.C.) was then honored by Vanco with the PC Offensive Player of the Year award. Takach averaged a career-best 10.2 points-per-game in the 2006-07 season and finished the year with two consecutive double-doubles.
A freshman from Fort Bragg, N.C., Taylor Price was chosen as the team’s Most Improved Player. Price has only been playing basketball since her junior year of high school and due to key injuries on the squad this season was forced into a starting role, ending the year averaging 3.1 points and 5.3 rebounds-per-game.
Jessica Parris (Inman, S.C.) garnered the Hustle Award for her ability to play through an injury all year and give everything that she had in every contest.
Takach received the final award of the night when she was honored as the team’s Most Valuable Player by Vanco and the coaching staff.
Vanco then honored all the special people that had helped the program this season, including Presbyterian College Assistant Athletic Director and assistant women’s basketball coach Mike Smith, who is stepping down to focus on other duties.
The ceremony ended with a special highlight film that chronicled the 2006-07 women’s basketball season and was made by first-year assistant coach Holly Brooks.